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Peer reviewedLong, Huey B. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 1986
The author traces the educational activities of adults in colonial America back to their British counterparts. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Clubs, Colonial History (United States), Discussion Groups
Peer reviewedShawen, Neil M. – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1979
Describes the American lyceum movement in the nineteenth century, which embodied many principles now included in adult learning theory. The lyceum was a sort of adult learning center, mostly at the village level, which used the lecture-teaching-learning approach with community study circles to share experience and knowledge. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Community Role
Download full textStudebaker, J. W.; Williams, C. S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
This bulletin has been prepared in response to many hundreds of requests for information about public affairs forums. It is impossible in such limited space to give a comprehensive description of the forum method of adult civic education or its application in various parts of the country. However, the authors have tried to include in the bulletin…
Descriptors: Civics, Program Administration, National Programs, Role of Education
